Joshua Wing Kei Ho

Dr Ho is an Associate Professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He completed his BSc (Hon 1, Medal) and PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Sydney, and undertook postdoctoral training in at Harvard Medical School. Prior to joining HKU, Dr Ho was the Head of Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine Laboratory at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, in Sydney Australia. His research focuses on developing and applying cutting-edge computational methods for single cell RNA-seq analysis, metagenomics, and digital health. Dr Ho has over 100 publications, including first or senior papers in leading journals such as Nature, Genome Biology, Nucleic Acids Research and Science Signaling. Dr Ho is also currently the Academic Lead of the Bioinformatics Core of the Centre for PanorOmic Sciences (CPOS) at HKU. He is an Executive Editor of the journal Biophysical Reviews.

Research Interests:

• Bioinformatics
• Single cell analytics
• Gut microbiome metagenomics
• Artificial intelligence and IoT in medicine
• Digital health

Honours and Awards:

• Best Paper Award, International Conference on Quality Software (2009)
• Ruth K Kirschstein National Research Service Award, NIH, USA (2010)
• Rod Richards Fellowship, Australian Academy of Science (2014)
• Illumina Early Career Researcher Award, Australian Epigenetics Alliance (2015)
• NSW Ministerial Award for Rising Stars in Cardiovascular Research (2015)
• Young Tall Poppy Science Award, Australian Institute of Policy and Science (2016)
• Career Development Fellowship, National Health and Medical Research Council (2016)
• Future Leader Fellowship, National Heart Foundation of Australia (2016)
• Winner, The Bioinformatics Peer Prize II, The Thinkable Academy (2017)